WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. (First Alert 4) - A tree broke and hit an apartment building in Washington Park on Saturday during heavy rain and wind.

Latosha Howard has to use a ladder to climb in and out of her Washington Park apartment now, after the tree destroyed the stairs to her unit. On Tuesday, she was there trying to grab some of her belongings.

“I can’t keep transporting back and forth. I got stuff in the house,” Howard said.

Storms on Saturday brought rain and fast winds nearing 40 miles per hour.

“The things came off the walls. Everything came off the walls. The TV, the pictures and broke the furniture,” Howard said.

Howard was sitting in her living room when she said she heard a tree come crashing down.

When the tree came down, it broke her front porch and trapped Howard inside

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